Технион - израильский технологический институт  
236635 - On the Management and Efficiency of Cloud Based Services
  Весна 2012 EnglishRussianHebrewArabic  
Домашние Задания

Lecture 1 - Paper #2
Choose and answer one of the two:
Option #1:
The authors of the JIQ paper decompose their algorithm into two different scheduling problems. Which are they?

Option #2:
When describing the reversed load balancing problem (that of servers joining dispatchers' I-queues),
the authors state that "all communication between processors and I-queues are off the critical path" (end of 2.2).
What do they mean by that?
День сдачи:  1/4/2012
Lecture 2 - Paper #1
Q: The BaTS algorithm described in the paper, gathers an initial estimation of tasks running times and their costs. Why does the algorithm keeps gathering statistics after the initial phase? Name two reasons.
День сдачи:  15/4/2012
Lecture 3 - Paper #4
What new contribution does this paper present, with respect to previous work?
День сдачи:  15/4/2012
Lecture 4 - Paper #6
What resources are needed to migrate a VM? and which resource is the most time consuming?
День сдачи:  29/4/2012
Lecture 5 - Paper #7
Mention and briefly explain two motivations for using WAN migration.
День сдачи:  6/5/2012
Lecture 6 - Paper #21
Why do we need RAMClouds, why are conventional storage disks not enough?
День сдачи:  20/5/2012
Lecture 7 - Paper #20
What connection between resource utilization and power consumption is assumed in the article's energy model?
День сдачи:  20/5/2012
Lecture 8 - Paper #13
What is the danger in the proposed separation between a “broker” and a “provider”?
День сдачи:  3/6/2012
Lecture 9 - Paper #19
What is the relation between the suggested solution and load balancing?
День сдачи:  3/6/2012
Lecture 10 -Paper #25
What is the algorithm input by the user? and by the cloud providers?
День сдачи:  17/6/2012